White House pressures FDA on unproven Japanese drug

White House pressures FDA on unproven Japanese drug

Source: 
Politico
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The Trump administration is encouraging regulators to allow a decades-old flu drug to be administered as a possible coronavirus treatment, despite career officials’ concerns about the risks and limited evidence that the drug would work as a coronavirus treatment, according to three officials with knowledge of the deliberations and internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.